Indiana schools have been experimenting with a state-wide network with Linux clients since at least 2005. If you're serious about this, check out the website and consider contacting people who were involved for advice.
Except that the only choice for rail (Amtrak) takes twice as long as driving at the best of times. For short trips, you might as well drive. For medium distances (10 hours driving), your travel time balloons to over a full day in most cases. For long distances (cross country), you pretty much have to fly.
I've also seen technology that allows those kind of presentations to be recorded as flash files. A professor of mine also used this to let kids get richer feedback on their submitted papers; he would load their papers up in the tablet PC app (electronic submission was required for other reasons) and record himself talking and circling, crossing out, etc parts of the papers.
It's disguised anti-Red Hatism from those who resent a company making money out of Linux...
I dislike Fedora due to my experience with package management on Red Hat EL (I forget which version) and Fedora Core 4-ish. Even if package management is much improved, I haven't really felt the need to try installing Fedora (Debian/Gentoo work just fine), and so my negative impressions persist.
I suspect I'm not the only one for whom this is true.
General Education requirements at my college are pathetic; most of them can be skipped by taking AP tests in high school. A quick summary:
Two writing classes
One oral communication class
Three classes total in mathematics and the natural sciences (this includes remedial mathematics and introductory sciences)
One literature class
One non-literature humanities (philosophy, music, foreign languages, etc)
Two social studies classes (economics, history, psychology, sociology)
These are pretty basic requirements to function as a useful member of society; your crack at "Shakespeare appreciation" shows that you didn't really understand the purpose of literature courses--to teach reading comprehension.
The real problem isn't really the lack of desktops or window managers. The real problem is the lack of a decent file manager that's independent and that allows you to see content (e.g., see jpegs, see pdfs).
ROX is not the answer. XFCE is not the answer. Have you tried XFCE 4.4's Thunar file manager? It includes the previewing capabilities of Nautilus and is a huge interface improvement over xffm.
CDs have a hard limit for frequency response, with an immediate cutoff at 22050hz, whereas vinyl's frequency response extends past 25000hz with a very gradual rolloff. This should be taken into account by the recording or mastering engineer with the top end attenuated on a gradual slope
I'm guessing you got this 22050 Hz cutoff frequency by dividing the sampling frequency (44.1 KHz) by two (see Nyquist frequency). You fail to take into account the transition time for the analog prefilter used to avoid aliasing; not only is there not a harsh cutoff when the correct filtering is used, the frequency response should actually start dropping around 20 KHz--the upper range of human hearing. The signal is oversampled at 44.1 KHz to provide room for this transition. Besides, a human couldn't hear frequencies out to 25 KHz anyway, so that is probably not the reason for early CDs sounding "harsh" or "overly bright."
I don't want to be reductive here, but Gentoo is really just a platform for building programs from source code and then managing those programs after they are built. There's no mystery to it--most of the other distros install binaries that were compiled on other computers but that work perfectly well on yours.
I think the fact that there's "no mystery to it" is what makes installing Gentoo mildly educational. Sure, now you look at the install procedure and think "all you're basically doing is un-tarring a stage tarball, chrooting, and then making mild modifications to a few files." But the fact that that's all a linux install can be pretty eye opening.
Now, I admit that users unfamiliar with the Linux CLI probably won't understand what they're doing the first time and around and will blindly follow instructions, but there is an opportunity to learn there.
Hey, buddy, that's everyone. The only thing that changes are the idiosyncrasies, the individual blind spots, usually about the things that we personally or culturally choose to care about. That my fellow countrymen happen to believe a particularly embarrassing one is unfortunate, but in the grand scheme of things is hardly the ultimate sin against 'Truth'.
This is why we should work to remind each other of inconvenient truths. They can be entirely too easy to ignore.
And that depends very heavily on what type of groups you work with. Do they make it seem like work/obligation/pressure, or is it still fun and truly social? I would guess this would be very guild-dependent.
Well, at first it's fun, social, and fulfills a sense of personal advancement. Without the social aspect, there's very little external pressure to continue playing and it's just about personal advancement and fun. As you suggested, it's going to be fairly guild dependant how powerful social influences are--but the other factors depend on the person.
There's also a limit - you may play a lot to reach level 60, but then you do stop. Sure, you can join raids, get gear, but the drive to constantly improve falls away
You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. The post-60 game is where addiction is most likely, because the social aspect is so much stronger when progression requires raiding with 39 other people. Plus, even if you cap out your own gear, you need to be there to help others get up to speed.
This is a perfect example of how the restrictiveness of DRM interferes with the read-write culture by denying fair use.
What is the economic and cultural impact of locking up all this creativity? It seems like this question is never asked when the "merits" of DRM are considered.
I don't know what kind of hardware you're running, but I know I had to hunt down drivers for my motherboard--including sound and ethernet drivers--as well as video drivers. This was followed by several hours of furious clicking to install enough stuff to make the damn thing usable.
In contrast, the only drivers that I had to go out and get for my Linux install were the nvidia drivers--and those are packaged by my distribution (and therefore update automatically along with all my other software!).
If open Linux drivers exist for your hardware, that hardware will likely work out of the box on any recent distribution with automatic hardware detection (e.g, Ubuntu).
If you have employees complaining about needing to use personal email (what did they do before email in the workplace was common?),...
So we shouldn't allow people to improve their lives? I'm sure that personal communication took place in the workplace without email, and if it doesn't impair productivity and improves morale--is the extra security really worth it?
But on the modern PC, it would be impossible to use a buffer overflow in the heap to reliably execute arbitrary code.. Unless the coder in question was doing something really, really stupid (like executing code from an arbitrary instruction buffer in their structure, which you conveniently just overwrote). Fortunately for us, MS does not do anything of that nature.
Microsoft may not do it, but don't some code obfuscation techniques work this way?
If Microsoft fixed everything, then the companies that made programs that allowed users to work around the "flaws" in Windows would go to the federal prosecutors and demand that Microsoft be sued for having a monopoly on fixing their own bugs.
You may have been joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft's anti-spyware and anti-virus tools resulted in some sort of litigation.
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Indiana schools have been experimenting with a state-wide network with Linux clients since at least 2005. If you're serious about this, check out the website and consider contacting people who were involved for advice.
Except that the only choice for rail (Amtrak) takes twice as long as driving at the best of times. For short trips, you might as well drive. For medium distances (10 hours driving), your travel time balloons to over a full day in most cases. For long distances (cross country), you pretty much have to fly.
There's just not a place for rail to fit in.
How about something ending in RPLL?
I've also seen technology that allows those kind of presentations to be recorded as flash files. A professor of mine also used this to let kids get richer feedback on their submitted papers; he would load their papers up in the tablet PC app (electronic submission was required for other reasons) and record himself talking and circling, crossing out, etc parts of the papers.
I dislike Fedora due to my experience with package management on Red Hat EL (I forget which version) and Fedora Core 4-ish. Even if package management is much improved, I haven't really felt the need to try installing Fedora (Debian/Gentoo work just fine), and so my negative impressions persist.
I suspect I'm not the only one for whom this is true.
General Education requirements at my college are pathetic; most of them can be skipped by taking AP tests in high school. A quick summary:
These are pretty basic requirements to function as a useful member of society; your crack at "Shakespeare appreciation" shows that you didn't really understand the purpose of literature courses--to teach reading comprehension.
I think the fact that there's "no mystery to it" is what makes installing Gentoo mildly educational. Sure, now you look at the install procedure and think "all you're basically doing is un-tarring a stage tarball, chrooting, and then making mild modifications to a few files." But the fact that that's all a linux install can be pretty eye opening.
Now, I admit that users unfamiliar with the Linux CLI probably won't understand what they're doing the first time and around and will blindly follow instructions, but there is an opportunity to learn there.
You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. The post-60 game is where addiction is most likely, because the social aspect is so much stronger when progression requires raiding with 39 other people. Plus, even if you cap out your own gear, you need to be there to help others get up to speed.
The concept is called rent seeking.
This is a perfect example of how the restrictiveness of DRM interferes with the read-write culture by denying fair use. What is the economic and cultural impact of locking up all this creativity? It seems like this question is never asked when the "merits" of DRM are considered.
...even in situations like these, where this Dell/Google alliance has apparently just gone from beta to stable.
Considering that some religions consider this a harbinger of the apocalypse, the word 'just' seems unjustified.I don't know what kind of hardware you're running, but I know I had to hunt down drivers for my motherboard--including sound and ethernet drivers--as well as video drivers. This was followed by several hours of furious clicking to install enough stuff to make the damn thing usable. In contrast, the only drivers that I had to go out and get for my Linux install were the nvidia drivers--and those are packaged by my distribution (and therefore update automatically along with all my other software!). If open Linux drivers exist for your hardware, that hardware will likely work out of the box on any recent distribution with automatic hardware detection (e.g, Ubuntu).
It might be because the Centrino platform was a cash cow for Intel?
This just isn't the case. Endianness issues and SSE2 code often gets in the way of a direct port.